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Cheiloclinium hippocrateoides

Botanic Family

Celastraceae

Author

(Peyritsch) A.C. Smith

Common Names

• Caimito de Monte
• Owentaca (Huaorani)

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amapá
• Amazonas
• Pará
• Rondonia
• Roraima - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Panama
• Peru
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Riverbank
• lowland tropical rainforest
• forest
• disturbed forest
• floodplain forest

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Mar
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• Jun

Branched twining liana which starts as a scandent shrub. Entire or crenulate leaves to 200mm x 110mm. Fragrant yellow flowers in axillary cymes with papery bracts, petals to 1.5mm x 1.5mm, glabrous or puberulent. Yellow fruit turning orange

Further References

• Mobot
• NHN
• Neotrop
• FB
• NYBG
• FOPE
• The Plant List 2